Remington noiseless typewriter mechanism - GIF

Remington noiseless typewriter mechanism.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...711#post151975
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...105#post176298
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...100#post176282
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...294#post150318
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...8302#post87205

Not that damned quiet. Bring that thing up to even 40wpm, and see how quiet it is. Though, fortunately, technology has pretty well done away with that methodology altogether. :D

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Mechanical typewriter mechanisms are beautiful If you ever get a chance to take one apart*, go for it.

* - not a valuable one, because failure to reassemble it is a very real possibility.

I wish I had a photo of the parts layout from the Selectric I took apart in my teens. It was a work of art. I didn't count them, but it had to have had a thousand parts in it. It covered the entire floor of my room, and I even had to flip the bed up against the wall for more space.

Even better, it worked when I was done. :) The problem was a broken spring on the E key, and I stole a part from the ~ to fix it.

In high school we had a Selectric that had been modified as a computer output device. A BIG, hot box mounted to the bottom of the Selectric would trigger it like you were typing. Not super fast but got the job done.